Déirdre de Búrca (born 22 October 1963[citation needed]) is an Irish former Green Party politician who served as a Senator from 2007 to 2010, after being Nominated by the Taoiseach.

She claimed the meetings were being held in an undemocratic fashion, and Councillors were not sufficiently accountable, particularly in relation to planning and rezoning decisions.

She was nominated by the Taoiseach Bertie Ahern to Seanad Éireann on 3 August 2007, as part of an agreement made by the Green Party under the Programme for Government.

[6] She stated that she believed "that we have gradually abandoned our political values and our integrity and in many respects have become no more than an extension of Fianna Fáil" and that she had lost confidence in John Gormley as party leader.

[9] She said that her failure to get a job in the cabinet of Irish European Commissioner Máire Geoghegan-Quinn was a trigger for her resignation from the Seanad but was not the cause of her decision.